by Jonathan Cook, The Unz Review:
The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East
How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: “There’s the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?”
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More obscene “journalism” from BBC News. This is how it reports Israel murdering five journalists in Gaza:
“There’s the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?” pic.twitter.com/iQvkbr8pTT
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) August 12, 2025
Unpacking the depraved journalistic assumptions behind this short “question” is no small task.
Let us note first, in passing, the entirely false assumption here that Israel wished only to kill one journalist, Al-Sharif. All the evidence is that, in killing more than 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past two years and by excluding all western journalists from the enclave, Israel has been seeking to ensure its genocidal crimes go unreported. It is systematically killing those best placed to serve as witnesses.
The all-too-obvious reason Israel wiped out the entire al-Jazeera press team at this moment is that the Israeli army is about to invade Gaza City and commit yet more such atrocities.
But let us dig a little deeper. If you aren’t deeply shocked by the BBC, a so-called public broadcaster, thinking it suitable to air the comment above – all the more so after Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than in all major western wars over the past 150 years – consider this.
